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In real life, Juettner was caught and arrested in 1948, and served four months in prison. [3] Juettner made more money from the release of Mister 880 than he had made in his entire counterfeiting career. [3]
Jan 11, 2023 · Emerich Juettner, an Austrian immigrant also known as Edward Mueller or Mister 880, was the first and so far only person convicted of counterfeiting $1. However, when the U.S. Secret Service got to know him, they asked for a more lenient sentence. After ten years of searching for America’s most wanted counterfeiter, agents wanted to talk to ...
The film was based on St. Clair McKelway's article on Juettner. Juettner attended the premier of the film. Gwenn won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Mister 880. Ultimately, Juettner made more money from the release of Mister 880 than he had made by counterfeiting. The 20th Century Fox Hour ...
Jun 30, 2020 · A dramatization of Juettner’s counterfeit operation, as seen in the 1950 film, Mister 880 (20th Century Fox) One morning in November of 1938, he snapped pictures of a $1 bill, transferred the images to a pair of zinc plates (using, among other things, a bath of acid), then meticulously filled in small details of the bill by hand.
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Apr 10, 2010 · The Strange Case of Mister 880 ... of dollar bills began appearing in that city's money supply. Turning up at a rate of no more than forty or fifty a month, these bogus bucks were produced on a ...
The investigation into the case of "Mr. 880" has become one of the most expensive in the history of the Secret Service and the longest. The counterfeiter was found quite by accident in 1948. During a fire in one of the residential buildings, among the things thrown out into the street that were affected by the fire, they accidentally found a ...
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Mister 880. Based on the true story of Emerich Juettner, an elderly junk dealer who, like the character in the movie, only used to print counterfeit $1 bills to make ends meet. For 10 years, Juettner eluded the Secret Service's efforts to find him. He was finally caught in January, 1948, after a fire forced him to vacate his apartment on New ...
